Generalised social trust
Three classic NORC social-trust items (TRUST + FAIR + HELPFUL) on the same wave and split-ballot, GSS 2024. The within-battery gradient is the gap between how trustworthy Americans think other people are (low) versus how helpful and fair they expect them to be (higher).
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paired studies
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paired questions
Shelf Δ
0.71
2.91 → 2.20
Shape mix:
2
multimodal-symmetric
1
bimodal-asymmetric
Cross-fixture comparison
sorted by source mean ↓
Every paired question on this shelf, on the same 1-5 SSR axis. The gradient between the top and bottom rows is the shelf's acceptance test — a synthetic re-run on this topic has to land each row within its source CI to be useful.
Do you think most people would try to take advantage of you if they got a chance, or would...
2.91 (2.78–3.04)
Would you say that most of the time people try to be helpful, or that they are mostly just...
2.85 (2.72–2.98)
Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too...
2.20 (2.09–2.32)
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